GMforPowergamers
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I think that all it would do is force pathfinder 2e witch would be just enough diffrent to be it's completly own game, with as much ties to D&D as Rifts, Rolemaster, and Dark age Vampire..So you want to see an end to the fun of (at least) tens of thousands of people, plus an end to the employment of all the staff at Paizo (not to mention the resulting job losses in FLGS, distributors, and elsewhere in the chain), because of the actions of a handful of obnoxious internet posters? Isn't that a slight over-reaction?
Pathfinder isn't a clone, retro- or otherwise. Indeed, there's now much more in the game that is not derived from the 3.5e roots than that which was taken from those roots. Your description of it as a 'retroclone' is no more accurate than a description of Pathfinder as "the true D&D". Given that both are inflamatory statements attacking one side in the "system wars", can you not see a certain irony in your position?
You know I had this same arguement in the hackmaster thread, I don't know what people take as insulting about the term retro clone, Myth and Magic, and Castile and Crusaders, the B one that are all letters all take the term fine. They all have mechanics.not found in there edtions of d&d, and they would kill for piazo level exceptance.
So fine what term should I use for a game based on continueing a.previuse edtion of D&D?
Pathfinder the awsome game is great, Pathfinder the fantasy rpg that might unseat d&d as top rpg is no more a problem today then white wolf was in the 90's. Pathfinder being the one true spirit of D&D is BS... It has no more right to that claim then Myth and Magic.
Just the fact that every other spinoff game (is that better then retro clone?) put togather has less arguements with 4e fans on WotC web site in a year then pathfinder does in a week shows a current amount of problem.
Ever since the playtest